In miners  candles



PETER It. GOTTSTEIN, OF HOUGHTON, MICHIGAN.

EPRQVEMENT IN INERS CANDLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. EZQAJEL dated January 18, 1876; application filed August 29, 11574.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, PETER R. GOTTSTEIN, of Houghton, in the county of Houghton and in the State of iliichigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Miners Candles; and do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

The design of my iu ention is to lessen lhe cost, and increase the durability, of candles for use in mines; and it consists, as a new article of manufacture, oi a candle composed of grcase-steariue and tallow-stearine, substantially as and for the purpose hereinafter specified.

In the manufacture of my candles for summer use, I employ forty-seven and one-half parts of greusc-stearine, forty-seven and onefourth parts of tallowrstcarine, five parts of rosin, and one-tourth part of coloring matter, and of the composition thus constituted make said candles by any ordinary process,

PETER R. GOTTSTEIN.

Witnesses:

M. VAN ORDEN, CHAS. R. DODGE. 

